Education of Minorities in The United States

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  1. 6. Who helped establish Formal Schools for African Americans in 1782?
  2. 8. If an African American child wished to go to high school but lived in a county without a public high school for African Americans, the family or child had to migrate to where one was located. What Supreme court case gave this ruling?
  3. 9. In 1820, this city opened the doors to its first primary school for African Americans.
  4. 10. What Supreme Court case ruled schools to be separate but equal?
  5. 11. ____ segregation of Mexican Americans was overturned in Texas and Arizona after Mendez v. Westminster School District, 1947, made the decision that segregation of Hispanics in schools was illegal.
  6. 13. The education of Native American children changed significantly with the passage of the ____ of 1934.
  7. 17. In 1832, this Quaker woman was mobbed in Connecticut for opening a school for African American children. (first name)
  8. 19. This university was the first African American higher learning school owned and operated by African Americans in 1856.
  9. 20. In 1809, this religious group, with the help of abolitionists, started Clarkson Hall, a school for African Americans in Pennsylvania.
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  1. 1. In 1944, this man moved his family to a farm in Westminster, where the school district refused to enroll his children. He and other parents sued the Westminster school district as well as three other schools, which led to the desegregation of students in many states.
  2. 2. By 1838, this city had 13 private schools for African American children.
  3. 3. Students were often ____for speaking their native languages and a concerted effort was made during most of the early history of these schools to eradicate their students’ “Indianness.”
  4. 4. The ____ institute was founded in 1868 in Athens.
  5. 5. What was education used to "promote", if not force, on Hispanic students?
  6. 7. The ___ included names of school-age children, their age, place of birth, and, in some cases, the name of their parent or guardian.
  7. 12. After which war in 1848 did involvement of the United States in the education of Hispanic Americans begin?
  8. 14. Preparatory School This school, founded in 1887 by Mexican parents, was a bilingual private school for Spanish-speaking pupils.
  9. 15. In 1831, it was illegal for African Americans to be _______ or literate punishable by fines or imprisonment.
  10. 16. In 1887 ____ Native American children were attending school.
  11. 18. Bureau What act had the South establish free public schools for African Americans?